The new technologies offer solutions and opportunities for the challenges facing financial institutions.  For that reason, the BDMG has set up this program to promote innovation ecosystems and the link-up of startups with the public and private sectors. The program encompasses various agents and produces connections, making it possible to share experiences and ideas for creating and undertaking business in the financial sector.  Potential operating partners with experience in the new technologies are evaluated first.  Then, a business partnership is established.  During the first two cycles of the program, 28 technology companies, or 14% of the candidates, were accepted.  All told, 256 new contracts were signed and 5,683 entrepreneurs were trained.

The program combats the serious impact of poverty on malnutrition and school attrition rates in rural areas of Panama by disseminating appropriate technology for family agricultural production, from school stage on.  Panama’s Caja de Ahorros, Ministry of Agricultural Development and Education Ministry are handling the financial, technical and educational parts of the program.  Approved schools are visited by specialists from the agencies involved, in order to select the participants (students), who are then given tools and sowing schedules.  Training is subsequently administered and the results are evaluated.  The number of beneficiaries  rose from 2,415 in 2000 to 31,464 in 2019, a total of 345,339 children from 300 schools across the country being benefited.

The purpose of this program is to supply the stock market with new investment instruments to advance environmental conservation.  The proceeds of the FIRA’s Green bonds go to projects that produce a positive impact on the environment and promote the evolution towards a resilient, low-carbon climate.   Criteria are established using methodology for evaluating the environmental and social benefits of protected agriculture in Mexico.   The First Green Bond (FEFA18V) issue was the first international agricultural issue to incorporate Protected Agriculture (AP) and to obtain green bond certification from the Climate Bonds Initiative.  The proceeds of that initial bond provided US$130 million in financing for 521 projects, while the second issue benefited 216 projects with US$58 million in funds.

A wide array of information and advisory services and support are offered by way of this portal to export and import companies, in order to enhance their potential by considering the international risks, exploring opportunities and bettering their competitiveness.  A series of aspects are also covered, such as commercial financing and export risk insurance.  By the first quarter of 2020 and since the portal became operational, over 11.5 million visits had been recorded from 60 countries, among them the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, France and Hong Kong.  At the same time, replies were made to 800 inquiries primarily from medium and small exporters.